Thread: epilepsy in dogs?

It isn't always what it looks like. You mostly go to the vet after "it" happened. After describing the symptoms, Epilepsy is frequently the answer. Frequently a lot of these diseases look very similar.
We discovered that glucose deficiency also happens regulary. It looks very much like epilepsy, but it's only a lack of sugar in the blood. This also is a serious problem, but it's different. Dogs collapsing due to lack of sugar is bad, but sometimes is cured by feeding them a bit in the morning ( before shooting) and at noon when having lunch on the shoot day.
After epilepsie a dog can indeed look like a zombie and be completely off. Even bite out of fear, because he doesn't know what happens.

It certainly is a common problem in a lot of breeds. Trial dogs go faster and fatser and are only run for a very short time. Also on training. If a top dog has a such a problem it will never show up and will be passed on the progeny. The owner, in all honesty, might not even know it. I am as guilty as anybody. it's impossible to make a trial dog running frequently over long periods or he will pace himself.

Reed the article in Mike Smith's book on spaniels, about Badgercourt Druid. A dog found in almost all spaniëls. The dog started collapsing and died from it. His genes are found in any spaniel. Most are OK but some will carry "the" bad gene and have problems and pass them on.

No breed, no line ,.... is perfect. The old English breeders where brave and culled anything wich was not O.K. This no longer happens now. If you see a problem that you don't trust, cull and restart again with hopefully better blood.
There is one golden rule : if they are not right, they are wrong.